 Welcome back to the breakfast here in Plus TV Africa. Now let's go back in history and I'm going back to the year 2012 to tell you of course once again one of the most popular Athletes in of course Olympic history, but of course popular for other reasons as history eventually showed us in 2012 is popularly known as the Blade Runner Oscar Pistorius on this day on the 4th of August in 2012 in London He became the first amputee to compete at the Olympics by running in an opening heat of the men's 400 meters Pistorius finished second out of five runners and advanced to the semi-finals where he finished eight out of eight runners His image would drastically eventually change early the next year when the star athlete was arrested for the murder of his girlfriend The Reaver Sting Camp. He took second place at a time of 45.44 seconds in that heat In the semi-finals the next day he finished last place with a time of 46.54 seconds and also failed to advance to the finals Pistorius also carried a flag at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Paralympics his one of South Africa's most famous athletes But of course, you know, everyone knows how his story eventually ended With him being sent to jail for the murder of Reaver Sting Camp, but of course on this day He made very very big history terrible terrible story here at first. It was a great one People were happy first amputee runner Computed with regular athletes then with you know other amputees One six gold one one bronze one one silver great story out of Africa But then when we heard that he had murdered his girlfriend, you know a year later and that was about 2013 Exactly on Val I mean on Valentine's Day. That really broke our hearts Anyway, moving on to our next top story on today in history is 29th of I beg your pardon 2019 August the 4th. What happened today in history was the second mass shooting in 24 hours. So About 24 hours before then there was this mass shooting and this guy had went on on social media and basically put out information that was racist to Latino immigrants and People were really worried they said that that definitely was fueled by by Donald Trump and all his rhetoric against you know Immigration and all of that. So this guy basically went into a Walmart in El Paso, Texas You know, that was popularly patronized by Latinos and he just went in there Just fired randomly cute 22 people injured 24 and then less than 24 hours later This particular guy in the early hours of the morning in Dayton, Ohio on August 4th 2019 went ahead to kill nine people and injured 27 others now the sad thing is that His sister was caught in a crossfire. His sister also died and the police were actually nearby just around the corner when this guy began shooting and in less than 30 seconds the police was able to gun him down So he in 30 seconds this guy killed nine people and injured 24 to let you know that he was really just firing So to just aim and kill as many people as possible still about, you know, like I mentioned the Anti-immigrant rhetoric the lax gun laws in America and all of that. That's what happened today in history United States of America is Well, sadly, you know with the amount of mass shootings that it records the early I'm not sure what else, you know, I Don't know. I'm not sure what the answer really is, you know, and you know, they've they've had conversations about gun laws for a long long long Time, you know, and nothing really seems to be changing. They're not making any any actual changes There are any major shifts with you know regards their gun laws And so, you know, very likely, you know, these things will continue Good thing is, you know, you might argue that they have, you know, you know emergency health care when these things happen And some lives, you know will be saved But, you know, what must be done? What does the United States government think it needs to do to Reduce the likelihood of these mass shootings happening. They must, you know, take these things seriously I know that, you know, and I've said I think a couple of weeks ago. I mentioned, you know, that the NRA You know, politically, you know, has been one of the stumbling blocks to enacting better-gone laws in the United States and reducing the You know, the possibilities of people just having weapons Licensed in their bedrooms So, well Sad story really really sad Yes, and that's what we have for you today in history In 2012 Oscar Pateros became the first amputee runner nicknamed the Blade Runner and On this in history the terrible second mass shooting in less than 24 hours and August the 4th Let's take a break here and we'll return with our first big story